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Flock & ALPR Cameras in Clay, New York

Volunteers have reported 2 automated license plate readers in and around Clay — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.

Jurisdiction · by recorded street address

The 2 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of Clay, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 0 of them sit inside Clay itself.

The rest sit in Town of Clay (2).

2 of them name an operator in the record: Lowe's (2). The operator is who runs the camera, which is not always the local government.

Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.

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Reported cameras nearby
#466
of 701 New York cities tracked
0.1%
of New York’s reported cameras
Live camera map 2 reported cameras around Clay, New York
Every dot is a volunteer-reported license plate reader · map data curated by the DeFlock project · refreshed daily Open the full map →
Camera Watch Recently reported near Clay

No new reports near Clay in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 21:41 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.

Where the cameras are in Clay

The readers mapped around Clay break down as 2 Flock Safety. Named operators in the reports: Lowe's. Every report here dates to Feb 2026.

  • State Route 31 — 2 readers

Clay in the Onondaga County picture

Onondaga County has 104 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,305 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 471,611 residents and 2,488 road miles. By road density that is 0.04 cameras per road mile, in the top 15.1% of counties nationally.

Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 2 traffic. Operators named on the record: Lowe's (2).

What’s watching Clay

These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond Clay — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to Clay (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.

What you can do in Clay

Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.

Cameras near Clay

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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).